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Clipmarks | Vietnam Clips John McCain not tortured, according to US guidlines of torture. clipped by: beanz clippers remarks: The irony Continuing on John McCain, a bkook by Nelson Demille `Up Country` is about Vietnam - (Demille did 3 tours during the war and then went back in the 1990s, like many Vets have.) The story describes a US Officer, who must be MCain, as he becomes VP, being involved in v nasty stuff including murder to secure a pile of war loot. Clip Source: www.salon.com AP owes China an apology In pronouncing Xue Feng guilty of spying and collecting state secrets, the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate Peoples Court said his actions "endangered our countrys national security." . . . Agents from Chinas internal security agency detained Xue in November 2007 and tortured him, stubbing lit cigarettes into his arms in the early days of his detention. A few cigarette stubs into a forearm for a handful of days?  Thats it?  Thats "torture"?  Not according to the official definition of that term adopted by the U.S. Government, as explained by John Yoo: Physical pain amounting to torture must be equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death. For purely mental pain or suffering to amount to torture (under U.S. law), it must result in significant psychological harm of significant duration, e.g., lasting for months or even years. John McCain was not tortured zum Artikel... Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de